Article Summary # 5
Landon Clow
3/13/14
In the article "XL Dissent: 398 Youth Arrested at Anti-Keystone XL Pipeline Protest at White House," it details the vast amounts of college students who gathered to stop Obama from passing the Keystone Pipeline. The 398 arrested college students were from all over the country with a total of 80 colleges that were involved. Their goal was to gather at the White House in "hasmat suits", and carried signs that said " Keep your oil out of my soil." Once the group of young protesters reached the front of the White House, they put on a demonstration that had students laid out on a black tarp, and attacking as if they had been killed due to the implantation of the XL Tar Sands Oil Pipeline. The article continues to say after the students were arrested, many of them chained themselves to the White House fence to slow down the arrest process. One of the main emphasis Democracy Now pointed out was that the students protest may be the largest youth environment protest in a generation. After reading the article what stood out to me was the passion these college students have in that they are willing to get arrested to fight a injustice in society.
The other article is called I found interesting was "The Death Penalty is a Hate Crime." This article entails a father whose son was killed by a prisoner. Bob Autobee's son was a prison guard at the time the inmate Edward Montour was said to have beaten Bobs son to death. At the time of his sons death he was in favor for Edward Montour to be killed via death penalty, but after years passing has since decided to be against the death penalty all together. Bob Autobee now describes the death penalty as a hate crime and feels that death if his sons killer would be a crime against humanity. The judge of the case differs in that he dis aloud Mr. Autobee to speak about how the jury should sentence the man. This article shines a light on the social injustice of the death penalty. For many people the idea of killing someone because they took the life of another seems barbaric and cruel. The article shows that even though his son has been killed by the inmate, Mr. Autobee is willing to fight for what he thinks is a crime against humanity.
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